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Re: sid udev users, be careful with udev upgrade



This one time, at band camp, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) said:
> Hi,
> 
> 0.090-2 is broken. The permissions in the /dev diretories was all in a  
> mess (/dev/null not word writable).
> 
> kepp your old one or get 0.090-3 from incoming

This is, to be technically fair, not completely udev's fault.  udev
always expected == to be an equivalence statement, and = to be an
assigment.  It's just that it started enforcing it recently, and a
number of scripts supplied by packages did silly things as a result.

Still, be careful.
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